Once the backbone of Afghanistan’s rural economy and a pillar of the global heroin trade, the opium sector is now in retreat, reshaping drug markets and security dynamics across the wider region.

A Mysterious Image Was Supposed to Be Amelia Earhart’s Plane. Searchers Found Only an Illusion. At least 20 people killed as ...

BEAVERTON, Ore. (KPTV) - Washington County opened the Beaverton Recovery Center on Wednesday to help people dealing with addiction. The center along NW Evergreen Parkway offers 86 treatment beds and ...

Afghan traders are losing millions of dollars everyday due to border closures with Pakistan, despite a ceasefire being declared between the neighbours. Clashes between the two countries have severely ...

For a generation that lived the war in Afghanistan one grid square at a time, the war now feels like a series of dots on a map. A patrol base carved out of hardpan soil. A culvert on a highway that ...

Afghanistan's Taliban rulers announced that a ceasefire with neighboring Pakistan would go into effect Wednesday, after a second eruption of cross-border violence in less than a week that has left ...

ISLAMABAD — Pakistan said Wednesday it agreed to a 48-hour ceasefire with Afghanistan following days of violence that have killed dozens of people on both sides of the border. Pakistan's Foreign ...

LOWELL — When Ihsanullah Garay, 38, came to the U.S. from Afghanistan in the spring of 2021, he brought with him dreams of obtaining his doctorate in finance. Those dreams carried him to a university ...

Oct. 12 (UPI) --Dozens of soldiers are dead following clashes along the Pakistani-Afghan border Saturday night into Sunday morning. An attack by the Afghan Taliban on Pakistani military installations ...

The Afghan Taliban and the Pakistani military skirmished along their joint border overnight after the Taliban launched a “retaliatory operation” for the Pakistani Air Force targeting the head of the ...

Did you ever smoke? I did, for a long time (too long). For the first few years, I deluded myself with the idea that I could “stop anytime I wanted,” though never really tested that theory. Then I did ...